Lucian Lamar Knight collection
Scope and Contents
Included in the collection are a few speeches, some correspondence, 21 scrapbooks (mostly of newspaper clippings), and a 1920 manuscript, The Waltons of Virginia and Georgia. Scrapbooks cover the following: Knight's 1925 European trip; Joseph Rucker Lamar; Ruth Blair articles on Georgia; governors, such as Talmadge, Rivers, and Arnall; Stone Mountain; Franklin County, Georgia; Harry C. Edwards; and Franklin D. Roosevelt (four books). Also included are an 1862 autograph book of Clara Daniel Knight, Lucian's mother; an 1897 issue of the University of Georgia's Bumble Bee; a Booker T. Washington letter, 1901; certificates, diplomas, obituaries, and postcards; and the photograph albums of Rafael Salas, 1878 - 1895, taken in Cuba, New York, Atlanta, and Chatham County, Georgia.
Dates
- 1862 - 1951
Creator
- Knight, Lucian Lamar, 1868 - 1933 (Person)
Biographical / Historical
Lucian Lamar Knight, State Historian and Librarian, was the founder of Georgia's Department of Archives and History.
Extent
6 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Other Finding Aids
Unpublished inventory available.
- Title
- Lucian Lamar Knight collection
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Georgia Archives Manuscript Collections Repository
5800 Jonesboro Rd
Morrow GA 30260 United States